Hard and soft on crime

Extract from the Hard and soft and crime comment published in the Times recently.

'Students of new Labour are familiar with these barrages of initiatives, most of which tend to go nowhere. The real problem, of course, is that the government’s belated attempts to get tough on anti-social behaviour sit uneasily alongside policies that have been demonstrably soft on the causes of it.'

To read the full article please click Hard and soft and crime.

Unfortunately the Soft on crime tag seems to have stuck.